St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-12
ASLAUCHTERPEN
Awful Wreck of an Excur-
sion Train at Chats
worth, I'll.
There We're 1000 People
On Board, En- Route
East.
OF That Number Over 100
Met With Sudden
Death,
And Nearly Half the Re-
nlaindel We're Badly
Hurt.
The Train Fell Through a
Burning Country
Bridge,
And the Cars Were Piled
On Each Other ina
Mass.
Headless Corpses and
Limbless Trunks Scat
tered About.
The Dead and Dying
Robbed by Human
Hyenas,
Who Even Cut Off Fin
gers to Secure Cost
ly Rings.
Horrible Sights and
Scenes at the Dead
ly Ditch.
The Town Of ChatsW0rth
Turned Into a Yer
i}ahIe EFnrnTn
Who Even Cut Off Fin
gers to Secure Cost
ly Rings.
Horrible Sights and
Scenes at the Dead
ly Ditch.
The Town Of ChatsW0rth
Turned Into a Ver-
table Morgue.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE Times spe--
tial from Forest, ILL.,, says: All the
railway horrors in the history of this
country were surpassed three miles east
of Chatsworth last night, when an eX-
cursion train on the Toledo. Peoria &
w arSaw road dropped through burn
ing bridge and over 100 people were
killed, and four times that number
more or less badly injured. The train
was composed of six sleeping cars, six
day coaches and chair cars, and three
baggage cars. 1t was carrying passen-
gers, all eXcurSiOniStS, and was bound
for Niagara Falls. The train had been
made up all along the line of the Toledo,
Peoria d Western road, and the eXcur-
sionists hailed from various points in
Central Illinois, the bulk of them, how
ever. coming from Peoria. Some of the
passengers came from Canton. from Ell
Paso, Washington and, iii fact. all sta
tions along the line-from as far west as
and cheap rate had been made for the
excursion. and all sorts of people took
advantage of it. When the train drew
out of Peoria at o'clock last evening,
it was loaded to its utmost capacity.
Every berth in the six sleepers was
taken and the day ears carried sixty
IL
that
TWO ENGINES
were hitched to it, and when it passed
this place it was an hour and half be-
hind time Chatsworth. the next sta
ton east of here, is six miles off, and the
run there was made in seven minutes,
so the terrible momentum of those fif-
teen coaches and two heavy engines,
shooting through space at the rate of a
mile minute, can be understood, No
stop was made at Chatsworth, and on
and on the heavy train with its living
freight sped through the darkness of
the night. Three miles east of Chats
worth is little slough, where the rail
road crosses a run about ten feet deep
and fifteen feet wide. Over this was
stretched an ordinary wooden trestle
bridge, and as the excursion train came
laundering down OIL it what was the
horror of the engineer on the front en-
CINE when he saw that the bridge was
afire. Right up before his eyes leaped
fhe bright flames, and the next instant
he was among them. There was no
chance to stop. Had there been warn
ing it would have taken half a mile to
stop that on-rushing mass of wood, iron
and humanity, and the train was within
100 yards of the red-tongued messengers
of death before they
FLASHED THEIR FATAL SIGNALS
into the engineers face. But he passed
over in safety, the first engine keeping
the rails. AS it went over, the bridge